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bright yeilbw, the feathers of the shoulders oHve with a buff or yellow tinge, 

 and the smaller wing feathers are variegated Vith white, buffy and reddish 

 brown. Below the birds are brownish buff, with little or no streaking, 

 becoming white on the belly. The birds are about five inches long. 



The Yellow-winged Sparrow is found in North America, east of the 

 Plains from the Gulf States to Massachusetts and Minnesota, breeding 

 throughout this region in suitable localities. In winter it ranges from Florida 

 to Central America. 



Henslow's Bunting is an appreciably smaller bird than the Yellow-winged 



Sparrow, being less than five inches long. It seems to prefer damper meadow 



, grounds, but is also found in dry grass fields sometimes 



Soarrow '"^ close association with its congener. It is a darker, 



Ammodramus hensiowii grecmr bird, has the yellow mark in front of the eye and 

 on the edge of the wing-bend. The tail is composed of nar- 

 row sharp-pointed feathers, the outer ones being much the shorter and grading 

 up to the middle ones. The green is most obvious on the back of the neck, 

 where each feather is streaked with a narrow black or dusky line. 



The feathers of the back have their centres black or dusky, bordered by 

 chestnut, and edged with ashy. There is a black or dusky line behind the 

 feye, one from the corner of the mouth, and another defining the throat. 

 The under parts are whitish, washed with buff on the sides, flanks, and 

 breast, where they are clearly streaked with narrow stripes of black or dusky. 

 Henslow's Sparrow is found in the breeding season locally from Virginia and 

 Missouri north to New Hampshire and Southern Ontario. It winters from 

 south of its breeding range to the South Atlantic and Gulf States. 



Leconte's Sparrow, the smallest of the trio, is a bird of more western 



distribution, breeding from Dakota and Minnesota north into Manitoba. It 



T ^ , r, migrates throusfh Iowa, Illinois, and Kansas to South Car- 



Lecontes Sparrow, ,.^ , , ^ irr- r ^tt • t-i • i . t- 



Ammodramus leconteii olma, and the Gulf Statcs from Western J^londa to 1 exas. 



(Aud.). About the size of Henslow's Sparrow, it_is a bird of a 



general tawny reddish color above. The crown is dusky, divided by a central 



buffy line, and bordered by a broad buffy stripe above the eye. The back 



of the neck is reddish brown, each feather has a small black central spot 



giving the effect of dusky .streaks. The feathers of the back have black or 



